Okay first of all obligatory “generational labels are bullshit” disclaimer.
But I just noticed a lot of humour made by millennials as adults is very “cutesy” and “dad joke”.
If anyone grew up in the 90s or 2000s, you know that we were the total opposite as kids. Seriously it wasn’t long ago where the hight of our humour was homophobia and jokes about SA. We were the fucking horrible edgelord generation.
How did we go from being kids that would beat each other up for even looking at the colour pink, to the heckin’ wholesome cat video generation?
Honestly I know we make fun of ourselves for the “HECKING POGGER PUPPERINO” shit, but honestly, it’s a step up from the edgelord shit we grew up with.
This is, of course, ignoring that a lot of us didn’t grow out of it and became your Ben Shapiro’s and your Steven Crowders (I am so sorry Zoomers, we failed you hard)
While I’ve grown out of my edge and become much more emotionally in-touch, I have to admit that I really dislike the millennial obsession with childish things. A lot of times, it really feels like it borders on arrested development and escapism. I’m not free of this vice, myself, by the way.
When I speak about childishness, I’m not referring to particular forms of media such as cartoons and videogames which can both provide adults with something worthwhile depending on the story being told. I’m referring more to Disney/ Nintendo/ Marvel adults.
There are, of course, other things I love about my generation.
Haha yeah, what a bunch of babies
fuck that, no shame, your Switch is cool
my little brother and I have been sharing custody of our childhood SNES since we moved out of Mom’s house
Super Mario World will always be one of my favorite games
Mother 3 is one of favorites. Genuinely has a great story with a pro-environment/anti-capitalist message
I’ve never heard of it before and it looks awesome!! I think we have a Gameboy Advance stashed away in a box somewhere, maybe I can find a copy on eBay or something.
Thank you for the beautiful recommendation!!
Edit: I found it and Earthbound on Etsy. Is Earthbound great too?
Earthbound is also very good. It would be pretty expensive to buy these days though so if you’re gonna play it, just emulate it. Also be aware that while it’s pretty ahead of its time in some aspects, it’s still a SNES RPG with all the associated hang ups of that genre at the time (it might be a bit slow if you’re used to modern RPGs). It pretty much inspired every indie game ever though and at the time there were very few games like it.
Mother 3 is the sequel the Earthbound and is very very good. It never came out in English officially, despite fan demand. It was however translated pretty flawlessly by a fan called Tomato. The translation is so good that everyone pretty much forgets that it isn’t official. Here is the translations official site: https://mother3.fobby.net/
Ignore the anti-pirating message and just get yourself a rom from romspure or something and apply the translation patch and boom. Translated.
If you like having physical copies of stuff I think eBay and Etsy have reproduction cartridges, like you mentioned.
Oh snap, I think we have a pi somewhere with emulators for a bunch of consoles and bunch of roms already on it! That was our special interest one winter, and then spring busy time came and we forgot 🤦
I’m coming for your crown - you might not be the dumbest Hexbear 😂 we can count your talons as superior thumbs to my weird noodles and trade
My own SNES crapped out back in '17. Damn shame, I loved that thing.
I don’t think you’re a Nintendo adult unless you an unhealthy obsession with collecting. If you’re not posting on AITAH about your partner objecting to your Nintendo display taking up half the living room, I think you’re safe.
The pop culture obsession as personality thing is my number one red flag for dating. If your only hobby is consume media and watch youtubers talk about media, it’s not going to work.